Heroism, the effects of war and intertextuality in Mrs. Dalloway

 As a supplement to my previous post about intertextuality and geographical citation in Mrs. Dalloway, how intertextuality is used to portray heroism and the rippling aftereffects of war in Mrs. Dalloway needs to be briefly given further examination. In particular, the relationship between Clarissa and Septimus shall be looked at further. In Greatness Engendered: George [...]

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Celebrating Mrs. Dalloway’s 85th

A belated happy birthday to Mrs. Dalloway. The novel often described as Virginia Woolf’s most accessible turned 85 on May 14 and is still going strong. The LA Times blog Jacket Copy celebrated that fact with a piece about the book that quotes Woolf scholar, Anne Fernald, who coordinated last year’s Woolf conference, Woolf and [...]

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Woolf and queer studies discussion added

Woolf studies and queer studies. Where do they intersect? That question came up on the VWoolf Listserv a while back, and now a panel has been added to the 2010 Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and the Natural World to provide an opportunity for discussion. “’Queer Bloomsbury,’ Queer Studies, and Woolf’s Place in Both” will [...]

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Shopping for books at the Woolf conference

If you are attending the Woolf conference, June 3-6 at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Ky., you can plan some of your book purchases in advance, including the latest from Cecil Woolf’s Bloomsbury Heritage Series. A link on the Georgetown College bookstore’s webpage has a list of the books that will be for sale at the conference. You can order them [...]

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From Flush to Randolph, dogs do tell

Some people don’t like stories written from a dog’s point of view, but I tend to enjoy their whimsical approach to life. Take Virginia Woolf’s Flush, for example. It’s more than a dog’s story. It’s a literary love story. And it’s a study of a complicated father-daughter relationship somewhat like Woolf’s own. In it, Woolf [...]

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Today’s the day to buy Bloomsbury art

Paintings and other works of art once owned by Grace Higgens, former Charleston Farmhouse cook and housekeeper, go up for auction today at the Gorringes sales room in Lewes. The collection includes 11 items. Among them are paintings and ceramics by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. A bronze bell used to summon guests for meals is also for sale. Read the [...]

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Woolf conference adds staged reading

This year’s Virginia Woolf conference is coming up soon. And organizers continue to make additions to the program. The most recent is a staged reading called “Life in the Country: A Dramatic Reading for Five Voices,” by Roberta Palumbo of Holy Names University. The 50-minute chamber play features dialogue created from the letters, diaries, and memoirs of Virginia Woolf, Leonard [...]

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Going Italian with Virginia Woolf

I’m going to Italy with Virginia Woolf. I’m sure we will have a wonderful time. She accompanied me to Ireland a few years ago, and we had such fun that we are traveling together again. Woolf was a great European traveler. Of course she traveled around England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, but she also visited six [...]

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